Question about Power BI incremental refresh and dataset size

Hi, I’m looking for advice on a Power BI incremental refresh issue. My semantic model uses an Oracle database as its source. The refresh runs hourly, and the retention period is set to 3 days. I’ve also configured RangeStart and RangeEnd . However, the model size has increased from around 32 GB to 54 GB after repeated refreshes. I’d appreciate some guidance on a few questions: Should a 3-day retention policy automatically remove older partitions? What could cause the model size to increase after each refresh? How can I check the actual partition ranges and verify whether older partitions are b